The weather during 2014 varied greatly by region, and even by specific location, with some concerns going into the fall that the harvest might be good but not great. Happily, September and October changed that in most regions.

Leave it to C.S. Lewis to write things that chase and haunt me. That passage about describing light to people who had always lived in darkness? The one where he explains the same light falls on each of us? Yes, that one: Is it not quite possible...